TO G. Y. ZINOVIEV

Written:Written at Bombon (Seine-et– Marne, Prance) in August 1909Published:First published in 1930 inLenin Miscellany XIII.

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      Progress Publishers,1971,

      Moscow,Volume 36,

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Thelast two-thirds of Kamenev’s article are quite bad,
and can hardly be edited. I straightened out the first third
(p. 1 to end of p. 5) but am not able to make any further
alteration, because I see that what it needs is noteditingbutcomplete rewriting.

Inthis part of the article, Kamenev gives an incredibly
woolly and confused expression, with thousands of frills,
to his idea (that the
Octobrists[1]and the Rightists are
fighting over minor matters, that their struggles,
dissensions, fights are inevitable in bourgeoisifying the monarchy
and that from this fighting the revolutionfollowsonlyindirectly, i.e., provided the proletariat enters the arena,
and not directly, not by the bourgeoisie itself “going left”).

Tomy mind, wecannotpublish it in this form.

Eitherpersuade the author torewritethe last two-thirds—
and we shall then “edit” the article, or have a hand
yourself at rewriting the last two-thirds almost completely.

Ienclose (pp. 1–3 in ink) an approximate plan for its
rewriting.

[1]Octobrists—a counter-revolutionary party of big industrialists and
landowners formed soon after the tsar’s Manifesto of October 17,
1905 (whence their name). In it, the tsar, terrified by the
revolution, promised “civil liberties” and a constitution. The
Octobrists fully supported the government’s domestic and foreign
policies.